| James Orchard Halliwell- Phillipps - 1853 - 372 str.
...gold rings, Four colly birds, Three French hens, Two turtle doves, and A partridge in a pear tree. The twelfth day of Christmas, My true love sent to me Twelve lords a leaping, Eleven ladies dancing, Ten pipers piping, Nine drummers drumming, Eight maids a milking,... | |
| 1858 - 362 str.
...gold rings, Four colly birds, Three French hens, Two turtle doves, and A partridge in a pear tree. The twelfth day of Christmas, My true love sent to me Twelve lords a leaping, Eleven ladies dancing, Ten pipers piping, Nine drummers drumming, Eight maids a milking,... | |
| Clifton College (Bristol, England) - 1867 - 438 str.
...twelfth day of Christmas the young lady receives the following astounding tribute of true love : — " The twelfth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Twelve bells a-ringing, eleven badgers baiting, Ten lords a-leaping, nine ladies dancing Eight hares a-running, seven swans... | |
| Nursery rhymes - 1874 - 588 str.
...gold rings, Four colly birds, Three French hens, Two turtle-doves, and A partridge in a pear-tree. The twelfth day of Christmas My true love sent to me Twelve lords a-leaping, Eleven ladies dancing, Ten pipers piping, Nine drummers drumming, Eight maids a-milking,... | |
| Georgiana Charlotte Clark - 1876 - 296 str.
...gold rings, Four colour'd birds, Three French hens, Two turtle doves, and A partridge in a pear-tree. The twelfth day of Christmas, My true love sent to me Twelve lords leaping, Eleven ladies dancing, Ten pipers piping, Nine drummers drumming, Eight maids milking,... | |
| 1888 - 600 str.
...gold rings, four colly birds, three French hens, Two turtle doves, and a partridge on a pear tree. The twelfth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Twelve lords a-leaping, eleven ladies dancing, Ten pipers playing, mne drummers drumming, Eights maids-a-milking,... | |
| Folklore Society (Great Britain) - 1904 - 212 str.
...pipers playing, etc. The eleventh day of Christmas my true love sent to me Eleven ladies dancing, etc. The twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me Twelve Lords a-leaping, Eleven ladies dancing, Ten pipers playing, Nine drummers drumming, Eight maids a-milking,... | |
| Francis Fisher Browne, Scofield Thayer, Waldo Ralph Browne - 1916 - 460 str.
...slightly varying version which it is interesting to compare with Mr. Crawford's. His final stanza is : " The twelfth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me, Twelve lords a-leaping, eleven ladies dancing, ten pipers piping, Nine drummers drumming, eight maids a-mllking,... | |
| 1923 - 748 str.
...love sent to me Three French hens, two turtle doves and A partridge in a pear-tree. And so on to— On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Twelve lords a-leaping, eleven ladies dancing, Ten pipers piping, nine drummers drumming, Eight maids a-milking,... | |
| Zena Sutherland - 1990 - 100 str.
...gold rings, Four colly birds, Three French hens, Two turtle doves, and A partridge in a pear tree. 79 The twelfth day of Christmas, My true love sent to me, Twelve lords a-leaping, Eleven ladies dancing, Ten pipers piping, Nine drummers drumming, Eight maids a-milking,... | |
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